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Légende de l'an 1850. Legend of the year 1850. St. Montalembert, renonçant à ramener les Parisiens dans le chemin de la vertu, remonta, vers le ciel escorté des séraphins qui avaient voulu l'aider dans sa pieuse entreprise. (Daumier pinxit). St. Montalembert, abandoning his efforts to bring the Parisians back to the path of virtue, returned to heaven escorted by the seraphim who had wanted to help him in his pious enterprise. (Charles Forbes René de Montalembert was a French aristocrat, orator, politician, publicist, historian and representative of liberal Catholicism). From Actualités.